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A 33-year-old employee at a youth detention center let inmates use his personal cell phone, authorities said. Tyrell Jones provided the phone to people housed at Atlantic County Juvenile Detention Center-Harborfields in Egg Harbor City, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said. The Juvenile Justice Commission tipped off the prosecutor’s office about the alleged incidents, which took place last year. Jones, of Atlantic City, was charged earlier this month with official misconduct and knowingly providing an electronic communication device to a person confined in a juvenile detention facility…

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